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JOSEPH VVINTERBOTHAM, OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

BARREL-TRUSSING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,498, dated April 8, 1884.

Application filed November 15. 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH YVINTERBOTH- AM, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Joliet, in the county of Will and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrel-Trussing Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure l is a side elevation, and Figs. 2 and 3 side views, of the hooked bars 0, having the auxiliary hooked bars a pivoted to their sides.

This invention relates to certain improvements in abarrel-trussing machine; and it con-.

sists in providing the long principal hooked bars a with auxiliary hooked bars a, pivoted to their sides, for the purpose of catching an adjacent hoop, so that the machine will pull down two or more hoops at once.

Referring to the drawings, B represents a new barrel in position on the machine to have the truss-hoops Hand H pulled down on the bulging portion of the barrel. The vertipallyreciprocating hooked bars a are operated beneath the floor F by means of a screw, S, and threaded hub S, having radial arms, to the outer ends of which the .bars 0 are pivoted. The screw S is operated by a bevelgear, R and R, and adapted to be rotated in either direction to elevate and lower the bars 0, which part of the machine I do not further describe, as it forms no part of this invention.

The invention consists in the use of the additional or secondary bars, a, pivoted to the side of the long bars 0, between them and the bracket c, to give it strength, and adapted to hook over an adjacent hoop. These shorter bars a are pivoted to the bars 0 in such man nor that their upper hooked ends will fall over against the barrel by their own gravity; or a spring, S, attached, as shown in Fig. 3, or in any other suitable manner, to the principal bar, 0, may beused to impinge against the hack of the bar a to cause it to fall forward more readily. A stud, P, is set in the side of the bar a and protrudes out through the bar a through the transverse slot P, which stud pre- (No model.)

vents the bar a. from falling over too for either wav.

The hooked bar a may be long enough to reach above the upper end of the hooked bar 0 to catch a hoop above, as shown in Fig. 2, or it may be shorter to catch a hoop. lower,.as shown in Fi g. 3. It is immaterial which is the longest, and more than one auxiliary bar a 5 5 may be pivoted to the bar a to catch other hoops, if desired.

As all barrels are not the same in form, any hook or catch rigidly fixed on the hooked bar 0 will. not always catch an adjacent hoop to the one caught by the hooked bar 0. That difficulty is entirely overcome by the use of the pivoted hooked bars a, which fall over against the side of the barrel and catch the hoops on any shaped barrel, so that two hoops 6 are pulled on at once.

I do notelaim it is new to pull on two hoops or more at the same time, or that the machine described without the pivoted bars a is new; but the new feature is in providing the hooked bars 0 with the secondary hooks, c, that will by their own gravity, or by means of a spring or other means,- adjust themselves to any shaped barrel to catch the hoops, as stated. These bars a may be attached to the bars 0.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

In the barrel-trussing machine described,

and its operating mechanism with the hooked bars a and c, pivoted together as shown, one of said bars being provided with the trans verse slot P and the other with thestud P, to

.from falling too far in either direction, and means for throwing the pivoted bar forward toward the barrel, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOSEPH WIXTERBOTHAM.

\Vitnesses:

WM. J HUTCHINS,

THos. H. HUToHINs.

the combination of the hub or cross-head S 8o operate in said slot to prevent the slotted bar 8 5 

